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My Big Trip

Just wanted to let you know about my husband and I and our trip from his home town of Stockton-on-Tees in the UK to mine of Brisbane, Australia.

We're currently in France chilling on a day off in the sunshine and very nice it is indeed.

We're currently heading south to Marseille, then to Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Southern Italy and across to Greece where we've got tickets for the Olympics to see the Men's Road Race as well as the swimming (I am an Aussie after all!).

After that we're hopefully heading to Egypt, Jordan and Syria as long as it doesn't get too dodgy there and then up through Eastern Europe to Russia.

If you have any advice on any of these routes or if you want some (we're learning very fast) please drop me a line. Our URL is in my sig.

Ah - I am so jealous! Sardinia is amazing! Check out a little fishing village by the name of Cala Gonone - amazing rock climbing right out of the water! Plus the people are so amazing and the views incredible.

I am so jealous!!! Watching the Athens Olympics! The swimming, let me say a few things and sorry if i offend any Americans on the website - Up with Thorpey, Matt Welsh, Michael Klim and the whole team, I hope they kick Gary Hall Jr, Lenny Krayzelburg and friends right out of that pool! (they are the main opposition after all)

PS - if you can get tickets to the track cycling go and watch the Queenslander Anna Meares dominate the world in the women's sprint and 500m TT, as well as our 2x world champ men's pursuit team.

We may go to other events, but we're just going to pick tickets up at the time. Supposedly, they've only sold about a third of the tickets they expected to, so we should be able to get a lot of them there.

I'm so excited by it all but. The Olympics!!!! I'll check out when Anna Meares is on and see if I can get tickets.

Where in QLD are you? I'm moving back to Brisbane at the end of the Big Trip. Loving my trip, but look forward to being home after 6 and a half years away.

That is so cool! The 1500m freestyle and the relays, wow! You get to watch Katie Mactier in the individual pursuit and in the men's teamsprint probably Sean Eadie, maybe Shane Kelly or Jobie Dajka or some of the others. As for the men's road race, our boys are sprinting so well. Enjoy!!!

I'm in Rockhampton and stuck here for another 2 & 1/2 years while i finish uni. You'll love being back in the sunshine state. I tell you Brisbane has changed a bit, some parts of the Queen Street Mall would be hardly recognisable, Lang Park and the Gabba have both had renovations and they've put in the Busway system as well. But it's still Brissy and you'll love it.

Bilo - Yuck! I wouldn't want to live there! As for Rocky, yeah, it hardly changes, very slowly. The country town/hicksville attitude hasn't changed much either. But its cheaper for me to do uni here than down south.

Thank god my family left... The alternatives for a career there were slim - be a single mother or work in Woolies.... No offence to anyone who does either, just not for me the whole small town life thing.